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How alcohol affects the nervous system
Our understanding of how alcohol causes a rollercoaster of emotions is limited but many of the short-term effects of alcohol are thought to be due to its actions on the brain. Neuroscience researcher Oliver Freeman focuses on how alcohol alters behaviour by altering the transmission of signals between brain cells
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